I recently just completed the Nissan lemon buyback program. I had a 2013 Nissan Altima with CVT issues. I was just wondering where my car will end up? I have been watching for the VIN to show up online but nothing yet. Anyone have any ideas where Nissan lemons go?
Nissan takes them back and runs them through testing and analyzing the parts that failed to figure the problem out especially since 2013 is still a production model. My car was not a lemon and I actually had a really built well 4th Gen despite what other people said about the previous generation in 07 but my 07 3.5 Altima MT 6spd trans casing popped a three inch hole at 60K for no apparent reason late at night. I pulled into my driveway at 5:30 coming home from work had to go back out 9:00 to the store for my (at the time) pregnant wife and smelled gear oil and so I let the eBrake go and coasted backwards because I had a feeling it was the trans oil and sure enough all the trany oil was on the ground. I had no idea what had happened. Turned the car on to see if all the gears were intact and clutch would still engage which everything seemed fine so I had the car towed to Nissan late at night. Called in the morning to see if they got my car safely and the service manager said yeah call back in a few hours its already on the lift. Called a little after noon and the service manager told me a pin let go from the inside and blew outward a 3 inch hole through the trans casing. Nissan has never seen anything like it and over nighted a trany for tomorrow at no cost. The transmission was already on its way to Corporate to be analyzed. Soooo assuming what was done with my trans I assume they did with your car. I also know once a car is deemed lemon it has to be stated on the carfax and I am almost 100% sure it can not be sold or have to outright say the car was a lemon law car.
No, I did not end up taking another Nissan. To be honest they offered to buy back my car after I called the BBB and a replacement was not offered my car had been in 6 times total. I'm glad I didnt need to call a lawyer but the situation did leave a bad taste in my mouth.
My service manager told me typically, when lemons are rare, they go back to factory R&D to be torn apart and trouble shot. He said typically because he was confident that mine would wind up being crushed because Nissan already had plenty to look at with the same problems. I saw mine still on the back of the lot there weeks later. Have no clue what happend with it.
My 13 altima was bought back as a lemon. I watched the VIN, and even took the time to email carfax and autocheck when I saw it was still clean. They added a TINY note to the carfax that said manufacturer repurchased, no where did it say LEMON.
Then, I googled the VIN time to time, and guess where it ended up, and then sold? 100 miles away, same state, at a Nissan dealer as a certified pre-owned!
Thats some BS!
I planned to write lemon on the keys, and drop pieces of paper that said lemon under mats, glove box, trunk etc, but they said they were doing an inspection at turn in and I didn't want any trouble.
Like someone else said, all manufacturers make lemons, but it's how they treat you. My experience was horrible, and some poor bastard has a CPO that had it's tranny + a ton of other parts replaced, a crooked steering wheel, and a wrecked while getting repaired, and back 1/2 repainted car as a CPO....
I'm at 26k on my replacement car, a Toyota Prius C. I haven't been back to the dealer yet, not a single TSB or recall, and my current average MPG lifetime of the car is 58MPG
In the same time frame, the Altima had spent 2.5 months in the shop, at least 6 times, multiple parts replaced, multiple TSBs and a mandatory tranny reprogram.....
WOW! are you kidding me? (I know you're not I'm just in shock) I was told by numerous people lemons must have their title marked as such and anyone looking to purchase the vehicle must be made aware. I hope mine does not show up on a lot in the same manor I think I would take a drive and have a long argument with someone there. I never had to sign a gag order or anything so yeah........ :soapbox:
I completed my lemon buy back about 7 months ago. I've searched the dealer site, car fax, and on cars.com for my car... it just disappeared and never had a record again. I had a 2011 Nissan Altima special edition.
I was just car shopping on AutoTrader for my mom and came across a dealership in Florida with great prices on a variety of Nissan's. Reading the fine print which AutoTrader is famous for - almost all had a notation of ***manufactuer buyback*** or ***previous accident***...so cheap prices were too good to be true. There were a lot of buybacks!
So somewhat of an update, I drove by the dealer last night and sure enough my Altima was sitting out on the back lot with the note on the dash for pickup. It has now been there for almost four weeks.
Interesting that they would certify a buy back..could be reasonable if they actually fixed the problem(s)...but reading on I see someone had tons of trouble with a CPO.
Reminds me of my Grand Marquis that was totaled by the insurance co. after an accident.
I checked the V.I.N. A year or so later...it was titled in another state.
After more research I found that there are 17 states in which a check of previous title is not required when titling a used car.
After mine was bought back, it went to auction and then was put up for sale on an independent lot in Tempe, Arizona. The CarFax did say that it was a manufacturer repurchase.
I just googled my VIN and found it was sold in GA in February of this year. So much for it'll be crushed! If you're the proud owner of a red CPO out of GA wondering what's wrong with your car, PM me the VIN and I'll give you whatever you need to get out of it.
I guess "make sure vehicle was not bought back under lemon law" is not presently on the Nissan inspection sheet they're supposed to use while "certifying" the car.
Once I was shopping for a CPO Toyota Sienna. So I'm looking at this nice white van, but I don't see a "certified" placard on the vehicle. The salesman tells me it is definitely certified. I take a closer look. The "airbag" tag on the outside of the driver's seat is cleanly cut off. I ask about it and he has no response. He says it's certified, but all the paperwork is in the office upstairs which is conveniently locked on Saturdays, the busiest day of the week at any dealership. I glance at the tires. Michelins on the front and Bridgestones on the back. I ask him about it. He says "well sir you are definitely not supposed to have a mixed set of tires on a certified car." Customer then walks back to car and drives off.
Actually the opposite. Carfax lists my car as a lemon and it's even FREE. At the bottom of the carfax landing page is a free services section with a link for lemoncheck: CARFAX® - Free VIN Check | Know the Used Car Lemon Law | Free Lemon Check . If you put in my VIN it comes up as a lemon manufacturer buy back. My car showed up within 2 weeks of the transaction...I'm not sharing my VIN .
My CarFax also notes the lemon buyback. My car wound up in Arizona at an independent lot that I see has many repurchased cars. The website says my car has "no existing problems and all complaints have been resolved." Not quite.
They have to reassure the next purchaser somehow.. even tho it might be a lie.
I mean, who would want to buy a car seeing it says Lemon, ask if the issues have been fixed, and the sales person says No...
Come on, guys. It's easy to make an argument in the opposite direction and say only suckers buy new cars, pay the depreciation, AND work all the bugs out for the next owner.
Only buying new cars to avoid the very unlikely chance of ending up with a used lemon is ridiculous, and is contrary to good financial sense. If you're that risk averse, you shouldn't be driving anyway.
With all due respect, you are completely missing the point. I understand where you are coming from but take a look at it like this. A car that is declared a lemon is taken back, the car fax is cleaned, and it is resold as a "certified" used car ranked in "excellent" condition. Not to mention with nearly 12,000 miles on it, the car is being sold for only $2,000 less then was brand new.
It's not being risk averse, it's being cautious. I would not want to pay a large sum of money for a faulty transmission and other numerous issues, which were undisclosed to me as the second owner. I'm also willing to bet the vehicle was not re-checked when taken to Nissan due to the four or five days it sat there prior to being sold at auction. The problem was not fixed when it was bought back, and I doubt was fixed before being put up for auction.
The reason why we have issue in buying a used car is how easily it is to mix a bad car in with other great used cars.
Did I miss something? Who's carfax was "cleared"? I don't buy for a minute that carfax would do something so irresponsible that it would be the end of carfax. If this allegation is true provide the user name and lets get this settled. If my vin was suddenly clear I'd contact the media immediately with a copy of the repurchase agreement from Nissan that clearly stated that they were buying back my car under PA state lemon law and a link to the "cleared" carfax lemon check...
I have no idea what cleared it, I have checked the version which is free up on the dealers site with my previous vehicle and there is only one service listed for my issue, not the original six. Another site only has 5 records total. I have all my service records and even the dates do not match up. I have no idea if it is a nissan thing or a carfax (or other vin history company.) It just seems very strange to me that a vin check would not turn up all the services for the CVT I had. Not to mention it would not be listed as a lemon on any of the paperwork. I did not mean to blame carfax, I am wrong there if I misspoke I meant carfax as in the full vehicle history that for some reason will not show up.
reminds me of a car I owned that was
'totalled' by the insurance company.
Should have earned it a salvage title,
but some months later, I saw that the car was registered on another state, no mention of salvage in the car fax/auto check.
Seems there are 17 states which will
issue a title without regard to salvage or damage status.
When I later saw a used car with a good price I found 11 same state
re-registrations in a row in the Carfax/autocheck, but the last entry was a re-titling in Michigan, I believe .
That spoke volumes to me.
Carfax an AutoCheck depend on records that they receive. They can't find hidden/washed records I beleive
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